Google executives have been parking their private jets at NASA-owned Moffett Airfield since 2007, but now the company is poised to officially lease the Silicon Valley space.
Planetary Ventures, a Google-backed aeronautics company, won a contract to lease the historic Hangar One at Moffett, which is located just a few miles from Google‘s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Though the specifics of the contract are not yet set in stone, Planetary Ventures has essentially agreed to take over operational costs of the facility and rehabilitate it.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden called the deal one part of a larger effort to save tax dollars by “making surplus or under-utilized property available to the private sector or other government partners,” in a statement released Monday. Read more…
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